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...Mason also be a Christian? To the Rev. Walter Bauer, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lake Erie village of Fisherville (pop. 2,200), the answer is no. Nowhere in their prayers or ritual, he told his congregation in a sermon, do Masons make mention of Jesus Christ.* Furthermore, he had come upon a passage in a Freemason lexicon that defined the Bible as a "symbol of the will of God." Pastor Bauer concluded that such teachings were unChristian. He challenged lodge members to disprove his charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Lodge & the Church | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Undergraduates, their relatives and friends, attending the annual Baccalaureate Sermon in Memorial Church Sunday, heard President Conant counsel that this nation must deploy its spiritual forces in the contest against the Soviet Creed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Emphasizes Values In Today's Secular Society | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

Five consecutive days of activities will precede the University's 299th Commencement which takes place Thursday, June 23, according to plans announced last night. President Conant will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon in Memorial Church Sunday, while on Monday there will be an oration by Cleanth M. Brooks, professor of English at Yale. Addressing the annual literary exercises of the University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre, Brooks will speak on "The Present Crisis in Culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Activities Fill Commencement Week | 6/14/1950 | See Source »

...almost impossible to hear a speech from any priest or prelate in which Communism was not the dominant theme. I once saw a beautiful congress of children marred by a philippic against Soviet Russia. The thousands of children taking part might so easily have been stirred by a sermon on the beauty of the Church of God. Nor was it possible to doubt that a more certain blow would have been struck against Communism by deepening the faith of those children than by playing over the anti-Communist record for their parents. "Of course Catholics should refuse to sleep while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dominant Theme | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Church in Paris in the '80s was a family affair and people took their denominational differences more seriously. "[Today] we have the strange spectacle . . . of people refusing to worship together, while not knowing just why . . . [In the old days] the tobacco chewers always did their spitting at sermon climaxes, the juice hitting the floor with a resounding smack as a sort of substitute for a cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When I Was a Boy | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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